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Jose Maria Albiza petition

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1871
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten document. The item is a petition from Albiza requesting a discharge from the army for medical reasons.

Dates: 1831

Jose A. Bernal petition

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1889
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten document. The item is a petition from Bernal requesting a discharge from the army. Bernal lost two fingers in an accident while serving in the military.

Dates: 1833

Erastus Bingham pension application

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 972
Scope and Contents

Holograph application to the US Department of the Interior by Erastus Bingham regarding the pension due him as guardian of his grandson, Elijah N. Freeman Jr. Freeman's father, Elijah N. Freeman Sr., died while serving in the "Mormon Battalion" on 20 Nov. 1846 during the war with Mexico.

Dates: 1859

Collection on New Mexican territorial history

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1509
Abstract

Photocopies of handwritten and printed receipts, wills, correspondence, royal decrees, proclamations, pronouncements, grants, certificates, reports, licenses, orders, inventories, petitions, claims, and requests. The items were created mainly by New Mexican government officials and persons connected with local and territorial governments of that area.

Dates: 1526-1924

William Adams Hickman petition

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1288
Scope and Contents

Handwritten and signed petition. This petition is a "writ of prohibition" of John M. Wallace to the Honorable Charles E. Sinclair, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Utah, by Wallace's attorney, William A. Hickman. The item claims that Justic of the Peace, Jeter Clinton, collected illicit fines from a Utah "gambling house."

Dates: 1859

Manuel Micheltorena application for naturalization

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 1874
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a handwritten application for citizenship to Mexico. The petition was made in Monterey, California in 1844.

Dates: 1844

Portage, Ohio anti-liquor petition

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 253
Scope and Contents

Handwritten petition of the citizens of Portage County, Ohio against the sale of intoxicating liquors. Petition has one hundred twenty-eight signatures.

Dates: approximately 1830

Petition

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 12
Scope and Contents

Typed petition presented to Governor William Spry of Utah concerning a monument to be built in honor of the Mormon Battalion.

Dates: 1915

John D. Lee petition

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: Vault MSS 413
Scope and Contents

Handwritten petition, dated 15 Nov. 1853, addressed to the Utah Territorial legislature, and signed by Lee and twenty-six others. The petition requests that $2000 be appropriated to build a road from Ft. Harmony, Utah, through the St. George Valley to connect with the California Road. The signers argue that such a road would facilitate further settlement in the Washington and Iron counties of Utah.

Dates: 1853 November 15

Lincoln County, Virginia petition for a road

 File — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS SC 471
Scope and Contents

Handwritten petition with 48 signatures to the Lincoln County, Virginia court for a public road.

Dates: 1787

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Albiza, Jose Maria 1
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Bent, Charles, 1799-1847 1
Bernal, Jose Antonio 1